bleaktrotter: wow thats crazy. yours isnt OC'd at all snikch? i know if yours is ACTUALLY 2.13GHz, we can compare in a real benchmark like superpi and see i should've gotton more than .1 point higher :((((

Nah, it was overclocked for that test, see my original scores up the top. But some overclocking got me an additional .3 points I think, so surprised yours wasn't 5.9. Maybe you did it wrong

maybe there are diminishing returns the higher you go in terms of CPU frequency. like, 2 GHz will get you 5.0, 2.5 GHz will get you 5.5, and 3.0 GHz will get you 5.6 for example.i dont know. like i said, i've also done it at 3.7 GHz and it was still 5.8.i get 12.something seconds in 1M superpi though. so pretty good imo.

bleaktrotter: maybe there are diminishing returns the higher you go in terms of CPU frequency. like, 2 GHz will get you 5.0, 2.5 GHz will get you 5.5, and 3.0 GHz will get you 5.6 for example.i dont know. like i said, i've also done it at 3.7 GHz and it was still 5.8.i get 12.something seconds in 1M superpi though. so pretty good imo.

No you can use mismatched HDDs, but the largest drive will inherit the smallest drive's size. A 120GB HDD raided with a 100GB drive for example would make a 200GB array, the extra 20GB on the larger drive is dead space.

Also, you only get twice the speed in the theory. Real-world benchmarks will show that a 2 disk raid-0 array doesn't provide anywhere close to 200% the performance. It does however increase the performance, just depends on the tasks you're doing.